Dissolved organic carbon in sediments of the central Arctic Ocean collected during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XXVII/3 from August-September 2012

• Main Authors: Rossel, Pamela E, Bienhold, Christina, Boetius, Antje, Dittmar, Thorsten
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: ABYSS; Assessment of bacterial life and matter cycling in deep-sea surface sediments; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Arctic Basin; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.849056; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.849056

Marine organic matter (OM) sinks from surface waters to the seafloor via the biological pump. Benthic communities, which use this sedimented OM as energy and carbon source, produce dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the process of remineralization, enriching the sediment porewater with fresh DOM comp...